Oosterwal 2 Side A

The cassette is a TDK D60. It is the second part of an interview with Gottfried Oosterwal (8-2-1930 – 9-11-2015) in Utrecht on 7-9-1988. Gottfried Oosterwal worked as a missionary and anthropologist in West Papua. Oosterwal got a ZWO subsidy to do research in the Tor area in 1957-1959. His thesis was People of the Tor. A cultural-anthropological study on the tribes of the Tor territory (Northern Netherlands New-Guinea), van Gorcum, Assen, 1961. He also wrote a popular book Papoea’s mensen zoals wij, Wereldvenster, Baarn, 1961. After his promotion he returned to West Papua as the head of the seminary of the West New Guinea Mission in Dojo Baru. In 1963 he started to work at the Philippine Union College and in 1968 to the United States to teach at the Andrews University where he co-founded the Missions Institute. In 2009 he published partly based on his West Papua experiences: The Lord's Prayer Through Primitive Eyes: a stone-age people’s journey. Pacific Press Publications, Nampa.
The tape is part of the audio collection of the foundation PACE Papua Cultural Inheritance. For more information or any messages or correspondence contact huublems81@gmail.com or srgales@ziggo.nl.

Side A is 31’42 and Side B is 31’43

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